The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-29
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


Grifin-A Rabun County Mine Idle
Ccvington Wants Public School
system-Two Negresses Object to
Jim Crow Cars-A Fatal Boiler Ex-
plosion.
A petrified pine knot was found near Glib
son, few days ago.
Col Seaborn Jones has donated to Rock
mart enough land for cemetery.
Vannerson & Co.. of Augusta, have
leased the Georgia Railroads grain elevator
at that place.
The Hill City Cadets, of Rome, are to be
reorganised, and John c. Printup is to be
called to the Captaincy.
The Christians will erect house of wor-
ship at Rocl1mart this summer Col Sea-
born Jones donated them lot.
The Rome Brick Company turned out
their first kiln of brick Saturday, 500, 900.
They are now ready TO be delivered.
The peach crop around Covington is a
failure this season. The yield of wheat per
acre this year is a very good average.
The following gentlemen are being spoken
of as candidates for Mayor of SandersviIle:
Col Gilmore, Dr. Rawlings, DIR. Summerlin
and DIR. Roberts.
July will be a big day in Bluffton.
State Commissioner of Agriculture j. T.
Henderson and Col Redding, of Atlanta,
will address the farmers on farming.
The resignation of Deputy Collector w.
T. Trammell, of Griffin, has been accepted
to go into effect July 1, and Eugene
Blalock, of Jonesboro, will take his place.
The Governor having declared the officeof
Tax Collector of Washington now vacant,
the Ordinary has ordered an election to be
held on Wednesday, July 20, TO fill the va
cancy.
There is scarcely doubt now but that
Americas will have the telephone, as thirty
five contracts were signed before noon Mon
day out of the forty that was necessary to
secure it,
A hail and wind storm passed over DR..
Sumnerlin's, Messrs. B. j. Wilson's and
Jesse Newsome's plantations in Washington
county, doing considerable damage to crops
and outhouses.
The hot and dry weather had for several
weeks has hurt the corn crop in Washington
county, but the refreshing showers of the
past few days have put the crops in fine
growing condition.
Saturday the Masons of the two lodges in
Rome assembled at Floyd Spring with the
Floyd Spring lodge. At meeting resolu-
tons in favor of prohibition were adopted
by vote of 1874 to 6.
OulDcu DtdlSS SENATOR Joseph Il. Brown.
in his character as President of the Board
of Education of Atlanta, by his casting
vote, has decided that hereafter colored
teachers only shall be employed in colored
schools.
So closely does the appearance of
the murderous ruffian Bill Colsan
tally with the description of the
murderer of Bailiff Skipper, in Cuthbert
some weeks ago, that he is being held at Ma
con to await full investigation.
At festival five miles above Rocky Ford
Saturday night Beaurie Sapp shot Dan Mel
son through the head with pistol and fed
ms brains were said to be oozing out of the
bullet hole, and he is doubtless dead by this
time. Both parties were negroes.
Cotton and corn around Rockmart are
looking fine. Cotton blooms are fifteen DAYS
earlier this season than last. w. A. Cal
houn says he has seventeen acres of corn
head high. Wheat is turning out remark
able well and of very fine quality. Oats
are also much better than was first thought.
Since the Sunday soda and cigar law has
begun to be so vigorously enforced, people
IN South Macon wonder why il is that
daguerrean artist is allowed to keep his shop
open on public portion of Third street,
and ply his trade all day Sundays. They
cannot see the eternal justice of this matter.
Col. j. w. Preston, of Monticello, has re-
ceived the appointment as agent of Indian
affairs at a point in California. Col Pres
ton Is a prominent lawyer and brother of
the Representative from Jasper county in
the Georgia Legislature. The appointment
came through Secretary Lamar, and the
salary is 81, 800 per year.
: At Rome Saturday Capt John J. Seav
purchased, through Basss& Hill, the half in
terest of Mr.. B. l. Hughes i'm the Whitley
livery stable property, paying $1,000, which
IS an advance of 500 over the price paid for
1t during the recent boom. Capt Seay also
purchased from Dean e. Ewing the Hoyt
drug store property, paying for it $1,000
which is also better than was the boom price
Col. M. J. Hatcher, of Macon, has lust
returned from Birmingham, where he sue
ceeded in organizing stock company to
manufacture his iron wagon Admission
and Decatur wanted to procure the factory,
but Birmingham, with their usual enter
prise, sent a man to meet Col Hatcher at
Columbus, and see the wagon. The stock
was all taken without moving the wagon
from the depot.
The superstitious negroes of South Macon
have been much disturbed over the peculiar
condition Of one of their number who had
been in the business of cow-mnding in the
swamps below the city His name was
jackson, and he was taken violently i'll some
ttAtic okO, anu bftnbudtl1 ultQ VI d strange
and peculiar malady The negroes aver that
during his illness, while raging in delirium,
he constantly slowed like cow" and made
other noises suggestive of bovine associa-
tions.
Sheriff Fountain, of Wilkinson county,
was in Sandersville Friday. He came for
the purpose of taking Thomas Holland
lcolored) to Irwinton. Holland was indicted
in Wilkinson in 1883 for assault with intent
TO murder, the attack being made upon an
other negro He evaded the officers and
left the county. Constable George L. Avant
effected his arrest at Oconee a few days
since and lodged him in Jail. After four
years OF hiding he win now be made to
meet the demands of the law.
The Rocky Face Spring Company, which
has recently opened up beautiful group of
some twenty-five springs above Dalton, on
the Western and Atlantic railroad, has been
distributing water from one of them, which,
II is claimed, almost instantly checks cholera
morbus, diarrh9a, dysentery, nausea, and
above all, that dread scourge. summer COM
plant in teething children. Its effects are
instantaneous, and so far not single fail
nre occurred, even where children had
reached that stage where they could retain
neither nourishment on physic. The days
OF paragoric and soothing syrup AFRO num-